Lily Mottahedan

Practice Areas

Lily’s practice covers all aspects of private family law. She is known for her specialism in technical financial remedy issues, including those involving marital agreements, and those with trust, company and/or jurisdiction/forum complications.

Lily is also sought-after in cases involving fine art collections due to her in-depth knowledge of the international art market. She completed the Diploma of Art Profession Law and Ethics at the Institute of Art and Law with Distinction.

As a fluent French speaker, with practical experience of French family law following time spent at CBBC Avocats in Paris, Lily is also experienced in matters with an Anglo-French element.

Career

Lily was called to the Bar in 2011.

She is currently shortlisted UK Family Law Junior Barrister of the year 2023 by Chambers and Partners (having been shortlisted previously in 2019) and International Family Lawyer of the Year by Lexis Nexis (having been shortlisted in the Family Law Junior Barrister of the Year category in 2018).

Lily’s recent reported cases include MN v AN [2023] EWHC 613 (Fam), SA v FA [2022] EWFC 115, SC v TC [2022] EWFC 67, AG v VG [2020] EWHC 1847 (Fam) (High Court), Waggott v Waggott [2018] EWCA Civ 727 (Court of Appeal) and Quan v Bray and Others [2017] EWCA Civ 405.

Publications

Lily is the author of the chapter on declarations of marital status and co-author of the chapter on the English court’s approach to the recognition of overseas divorces in the latest edition of the leading textbook, Rayden and Jackson.